Imagine that you are hanging out with a close friend or family member, someone with whom you feel comfortable debating ideas. But this person has views that often conflict with your own.
Write a single-spaced, 4 page dialogue between you and this friend/family member about 2 controversial topics in late twentieth–early twenty-first U.S. history. These are topics that generate passionate but oppositional support among Americans of every stripe.
Late Cold War (1979-1991)
U.S. wars and 9/11 (1990-2020)
You must use the textbook and the following additional sources in your scriipt. Cite details in footnotes.
Late Cold War
– Film: “The Day After”
US Wars and 9/11
– Andrew Bacevich book chapter
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